iA trip,
‘Bellefonte, Pa., June 10, 1927.
UNCIVILIZED.
An ancient ape, once on a time
Disliked exceedingly to climb,
And so he picked him out a tree
And said “Now this belongs to me,
I have a hunch that monks are mutts
And I can make them gather nuts
And bring the bulk of them to me
By claiming title to this tree.”
He took a green leaf and a reed,
‘And wrote himself a title deed,
Proclaiming, pompously and slow:
“All monkeys by these presents know.”
Next morning, when the monkeys came
To gather nuts, he made his claim:
“All monkeys climbing on this tree,
Must bring their gathered nuts to me,
Cracking the same on equal shares,
The meats are mine, the shells are theirs.”
“By what right,” they cried, amazed,
Thinking the ape was surely -crazed,
“By this, he answered, “if you'll read
You'll find it is a title deed,
‘Made in precise and formal shape
And sworn before a fellow ape
“Exactly on the legal plan
Used by the wondrous creature, man,
In London, Tokio, New York,
‘Glengarry, Kalamazoo and Cork.
“Iinless my deed is recognized.
‘It proves you quite uncivilized.
“But,” said one monkey, ‘“you’ll agree
It was not you who made this tree.”
“Nor,” said the ape, serene and bland,
“Does any owner make his land,
‘Yet it, and all of its hereditaments
Are his, and figure in the rents.”
The puzzled monkeys sat about,
They could not make the question out.
Plainly, by precedent and law,
The ape’s procedure showed no flaw;
And yet, no matter what he said,
The stomach still denied the head.
Up spoke one sprightly monkey then,
“Monkeys are monkeys, men are men.
The ape should try his legal capers
On man, who may respect his papers.
We don’t know deeds! we do know nuts;
And spite of ‘ands’ and ‘ifs’ and ‘buts,’
We know who gathers, and unmeats ‘em
By monkeys practice also eats ‘em.
80 tell the ape and all his flunkeys
NY man tricks can be played on monkeys.”
Thus, apes still climb to get their food
Bince moukeys minds are crass and crude,
And monkeys, all so ill-advised,
Still eat their nuts uncivilized.
" —By Edmund Vance Cooke.
UNIFORM TRAFFIC RULES
ASSURED BY NEW CODE.
Uniform traffic regulation for Penn-
sylvania is assured by the provisions
of the so-called “motor code” passed
by the Legislature. Governor Fisher
approved the measure within the
specified time. His administration
sponsored the code. Article 10 of the
code contains the provisions under
whieh traffic control is to be standar-
dized. The code will become effective
January 1, 1928.
After that date motor patrolmen
attached te the State highway depart-
ment will be invested with authority
to arrest on view when in uniform
without writ, rule, or other process
any person violating the provisions
of the motor code.
Ro
residence district” shall give audible
warning with his horn or other warn-
ing device before attempting to pass
a vehicle proceeding in the same di-
rection. :
Under the new law, no motor ve-
hicle may overtake and pass another
proceeding in the same direction upon
the crest of a grade or upon a curve
in a highway where the driver's view
is obstructed within a distance of
300 feet ahead. Passing a vehicle at
a steam or electric railway grade-
crossing or at any uprotected high-
way crossing or at my unprotected
highway intersection is absolutely
forbidden. :
The law provides particularly that
the driver of a vehicle about to be
overtaken must give way to right
and under no circumstances may he
arging passengers, except
| where safety zones have beer estab-
lished or at intersections at which the
traffic is controlled. The speed limit !
at such places is ten miles per hour. |
Parking of motor vehicles upon |
highways is prohibited unless a clear i
and unobstructed width of not less
than fifteen feet exists upon the main
traveled portion of the highway, op-
i posite the parked vehicle. This fif-
, teen-foot must be left open for free
i passage of other vehicles. No vehicle
may park unless a clear view of the
vehicle may be obtained from a dis-
(tance of 200 feet in each direction.
{ Peace officers are permitted to move
{illegally parked vehicles or require
the driver or person in charge to move
the vehicle. The provisions of this |
section do not apply to a car disabled |
or disch
Publication -of -Copy - of -Petition
2 and ES a of edt 4 and Rule
Therein Contained, with Notice
to Persons Interested.
In the Matter of the Petition of BALTI-
MORE YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS
(ORTHODOX), a corporation created and
existing under the laws of the State of
Maryland, for its appointment as succeed-
ing trustee of the Meeting House Proper-
ty and Burial Ground, situate in the Bor-
ough of Bellefonte, in the County of Cen-
tre and State of Pennsylvania, and any
other property and assets of what was
formerly the Centre Monthly Meeting of
Friends.
In the Court of Common Pleas of Cen-
tre County, Penusylvania. No. 195 May
Term, 1927. :
To the HONORABLE JAMES C. FURST,
President Judge of the said Court:—
The petition of BALTIMORE YEARLY
increase the speed of his vehicle until | in such manner that it is impossible MEETING OF FRIENDS (ORTHODOX),
completely passed by the other ma-
chine. ;
Motor trucks when traveling upon
open sections of highway outside of
business or residence district shall not
follow another such vehicle within 100
feet. The law provides also that op-
erators of passenger cars shall not
follow each other “more closely than
is reasonable and prudent.”
Beginning with Section 1015, the
motor code discusses the operation of
vehicles within municipal limits, al-
though the same provisions apply to
operation on State highways.
The driver of a vehicle intending
to turn to the right of an intersection
must approach the intersection in the
traffic lane nearest the right-hand
side of highway and in returning
keep as close as practicable to the
right-hand curb or edge of the high-
way. In turning to the left, he must
approach the intersection in the right
hand traffic lane nearest the center
line of the highway and when turning
shall pass beyond the center of the
intersection before making his left-
hand turn.
The “center of the intersection” is |
the meeting point of the medical lines |
of the highway intersecting one an- |
other.
Municipal authorities or the State
Highway Commissioner may modify
the foregoing method of turning at
intersections if they clearly indicate
by buttons, markers, or other direction
signs the course to be followed. By
the erection of proper signs authori-
ties may prohiibt turning at intersec-
tions.
Drivers of motor vehicles must have |
regard for the rights of pedestrians
and other motor vehicles, the law
provides.
Operators are required to signal
either by means of a hand and arm
or by an approved mechanical or elec-
trical device. If a vehicle is so con-
structed or loaded as to prevent vis-
ibility of hand or arm signals, the
signal shall be given by a device ap-
proved by the Secretary of Highways.
When the signal is given by means
of the hand and. arm the driver shall
indicate his intention to start, stop or
turn by extending his hand horizon-
tally beyond the left side of the ve-
hicle; or if the vehicle is a closed
model, by his hand and arm in such
way as to be visible through the
Fvindow in the rear. ]
This signal, of course, gives the op-
erator of the machine following abso-
lutely no idea of what the operator
ahead of him intends doing. He has
as usual, three guesses—the machine
is either going to stop, turn to the
left or right.
When the patrol |
Except where traffic is controlled
was created several years ago it was, by signals or officers and except on
denied authority to arrest because it
was feared it would be employed in
the enforcement of other than the
motor laws. During the last session
of the Legislature no opposition was
expressed to clothing the patrol with
police powers.
Pennsylvania's new speed limit is
thirty-five miles an hour.
lature did not fix a minimum speed
limit as was suggested to it—that is,
a speed lower than which it would
be illegal to operate a motor vehicle.
Under the present law only two
The Legis- |
"curb has the right-of-way over ve-
speeds are designated—fifteen miles |
an hour in sections which are prop-
erly marked and thirty miles an hour .
elsewhere. The new act places the
following limitations:
Twenty miles an hour when ap-
proaching grade crossings of steam
or electric railways; fifteen miles pas-
sing a school during recess or im-
mediately before or after closing
hour; twenty miles at highway inter-
sections within business or residence
districts; twenty miles in business or
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resident district where the author- |
ities have erected signs to that effect;
thirty-five miles under all other con-
ditions.
The code provides that a motor
vehicle must be brought to a complete
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through-traffic highways, when two
vehicles approach or enter an inter-
section at approximately the same
, time, the driver of the vehicle on the
left shall yield the right-of-way to the
vehicle on the right. The driver of
a vehicle traveling at an unlawful
speed forfeits his right-of-way.
A pedestrian once legally off the
hicular traffic under the provisions of
the new act. This is in accordance
with a decision recently rendered by
Justice John W. Kephart, of the Penn-
sylvania supreme court. The act
says that the driver of any vehicle up-
on a highway within a business or
residence district “shall yield the
right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing
such highway within any clearly
marked crosswalk or any regular pe-
destrain crossing included in the pro-
longation of the lateral boundary
lines of the adjacent sidewalk at the
end of a block,” except where traffic
movements are regulated by officers
or direction devices.
Every pedestrian crossing the high
way at any point other than at a
pedestrian crossing, crosswalk or in-
tersection, shall yield the right-of-
way to vehicles upon the highway.
The driver of a vehicle entering a
stop before traversing a railway or highway from a private road or drive
interurban grade crossing when a
clearly visible and positive signal
gives warning of the approach of a
train or car.
The aet fixes the speed limit at
which motor trucks may operate. The
truck is designated by the letter
which appears on the license plate
preceding the numerals. The limits
for trucks with pneumatic tires are
as follows:
Class R, 26 miles per hour; S and
T, 24 miles; U, 22 miles; V and W,
19 miles; Y, 16 miles; Z, 14 miles; ZZ,
12 miles.
Trucks with solid rubber tires are
differently classified as to speed as
follows:
R, 24 miles; S and T, 20 miles; U,
18 miles; V and W, 15 miles; Y, 12
miles; Z and ZZ, 10 miles.
Speed limitations as set forth in the
act do not apply to vehicles operated
with due regard for safety under the
direction of police or firemen travel-
ing in response to alarms nor to
ambulances when traveling in emer-
gencies, but the exemption will not
protect the driver of any such vehicle
from consequences of a reckless dis-
regard for the safety of others.
The code re-enacts the provision
that operators of motor vehicles shall
drive on the right side of the high-
way, particularly in crossing inter-
sections or railroads.
Promiscuous and useless blowing of
horns in business or residence ' dis-
tricts is discouraged in Section 1012
of the new act, which sets forth that
the driver of an overtaking mctor
vehicle “not within a business or
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must yield the right-of-way to ve-
hicles on the highway. Drivers of all |
vehicles on the highway shall yield
the right-of-way to police and fire-
department vehicles .and ambulances,
when such vehicles are operated upon
official business. This provision, how-
ever, does not relieve drivers of such
vehicles from the duty to drive with
due regard for the safety of all per-
sons, nor does it protect the driver
or police or other such vehicles from
due regard for the safety of all per-
sons on such right-of-way. Present
provisions relating to clearing the
highway for police or fire department
vehicles are re-enacted. It is also
provided that no motor vehicle shall
drive into or park within the block
where fire apparatus has stopped in
answer to an alarm.
The Secretary of Highways and the
authorities of all Pennsylvania cities
are authorized to designate main
traveled or through highways, which
to avoid stopping.
The code contains the usual provis-
| ions forbidding parking in front of fire
i hydrants, fire stations or too close to
highway intersections.
| Reckless driving is defined as the
operation of a moter vehicle “care-
lessly and willfully or wantonly dis-
regarding the rights or safety of
others, or in a manner so as to en-
danger any person or property.”
i An operator is guilty of reckless
driving when investigation into an
accident discloses that the accident
, occurred because the front seat of the
motor vehicle was occupied by more
than three persons. |
! The code forbids the throwing of |
missiles, such as circulars or pam- !
phlets, at the occupants of a motor ve- |
Chicle or the throwing or placing of |
{any substance upon a public highway
, which may be injurious to a motor |
. vehicle or its tires. No persons may |
hang on ‘te. nor ride on the rear end i
- of a motor vehicle, or no persons on a
bicycle, roller skates or any similar |
| device shall hold fast to a moving
1 motor vehicle.
Drivers of motor vehicles involved
in accidents shall immediately stop
such vehicle at the scene of the ac-
cident. The code provides that opera-
, tors must give their names, addresses
and registration numbers, exhibit
, their operators’ license to the person
struck or the driver or occupants of
vehicle collided with; shall render
any reasonable assistance, including
| the carrying of injured persons to
| physician or surgeon.
Operators involved in accidents re-
sulting in injuries or death or prop-
. erty damage to an apparent extent of
1 $50 or more must within twenty-four
hours report the accident to the State
highway department except that
when an accident occurs within an in-
| corporated city or town the report
must be made within twenty-four
hours to police headquarters. Every
, Police department must forward a
copy of each report to the State high-
way department. The latter may re-
quire operators or police department
to file supplemental reports. No such
report shall be admissable in evidence
for any other purpose than to prove
, a compliance with the act.
| Owners of garages or repair shops
must report within twenty-four hours
, to the nearest police station or sher-,
ifi’s * office the reception of a moter
vehicle which shows evidence of hav-
ing been involved in a serious acei-
dent or which has been struck by
‘bullets. Reports must contain com-
plete information about the automo-
bile and the owner or operator.
Operators of motor vehicles must
stop upon request or signal of any
uniformed constable, police officer,
sherift, deputy sheriff, State police-
man or highway patrolman. The of-
ficer must exhibit his badge or other
sign of authority. The operator, up-
on request, must exhibit his registra-
tion card, operators’ card or learners’
permit and shall write his name in the
presence of the officer, if required to
do so, for the purpose of establishing
his identity. The officers named may
Insepect motor vehicles, but only as to
equipment, operation or engine num-
bers. This applies also to motor ve-
hicles in garages or repair shops. |
| Officers are given authority to re-
move abandoned or wrecked motor
vehicles from highways to the nearest
point where such vehicles will not in-
terfere with or obstruct traffic.
i The secretary of highways is auth-
orized to classify and designate ‘in-
trastate and interstate highways in
Pennsylvania and to provide a uni-
form system of marking and signing
such highways. This system shall
correlate and conform to the systems
adopted in other States.
Local parking and. other regula-
tions are not enforcable against al-
leged violators unless at the time and
“place of the violation an appropriate
sign giving notice of the regulations
is in proper position and sufficiently
legible to be seen by an ordinarily
observant person. '
The chief aim of the Pennsylvania
, Motor Federation in calling the May-
i or’s conference last fall and in urg-
| ing the adoption of uniform traffic reg-
ulations was to secure uniform in-
terpretation of automatic and other
' signals. :
Under the new code, where a traffic
control signal consists of three eol-
ored lenses, the amber or yellow lense
shall be in the center. Red lights in-
dicate “Stop.” No movement or turns
shall be lawful on the red light ex-
cept that “U” turns may be made on
a two-way street back of the point
of intersection.
A green light indicates “Go” and
permits traffic straight ahead and all
right and left turns except where
signs indicate that such turns are not
permitted.
No movement of traffic is permitted
on an amber or yellow light except
that when within the intersection of
‘ State of Pennsylvania, and
a “U” turn on.a two-way street back
of the point of intersection. Iocal
authorities may Provide for left turns
on amber, or yellow lights, in which
case such turns must not be made on
the green. Proper signs must be ex-
hibited calling attention to this
change.
Warning or direction signs, mark-
ers or signals in imitation of official
devices are prohibited. No advertis-
ing signs or signals may be erected
within the le limits of the high-
way except that the secretary of high-
ways or local amthorities are author-
ized to permit organizations to erect
no vehicle may enter or cross with-
out coming to a full stop. At the
entrance to through-traffic highways
signs must be erected bearing the
words, “Thru Traffic Stop” in letters
six inches in height. .
The code provides that motor ve-
hicles shall not pass upon the left
any street car proceeding in the same
direction, whether actually in motion
or at a rest when a travelable portion
of the highway exists to the right of
the street car—except on a one-way
street. The provision is re-enacted
whereby no motor vehicle may pass
on the right of a street car that has
stopped for the purpose of taking on | signals bearing their name.
respectfully represents:
_First.— That it is a corperation duly in-
corporated and existing under the laws of
the State of Maryland and so incorporat-
‘ed by Act of the General Assembly of the
State of Maryland, entitled “An Act to
incorporate the Baltimore Yearly Meeting
of Friends (Orthodox),” approved April
7, 1886, being Acts of 1886, Chapter 327,
which Act of Assembly in its entirety
reads as follows:
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gener-
al Assembly of Maryland, That Francis T.
King, James Carey, James Carey Thomas,
Joseph P. Elliott, Francis White, Jesse
Tyson, Chas. W. Davis, Simon J. Marten-
et, James Carey, Jr., Joseph Edge, George
L. Scott, John B. Crenshaw, John Pret-
low, Thomas McCoy and Zachariah Me-
Naul, and all those persons now con-
stituting the religious Society known as
the “Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends
for the Western Shore of Maryland, Vir-
ginia and the adjacent parts of Pennsyl-
vania, in unity with the Ancient Yearly
Meeting of Friends,” who now hold their
yearly Meeting on Eutaw Street in the
City of Baltimore, and all those persons
who may hereafter become members there-
of, agreeably to the rules and discipline of
said Society, or such rules and disci-
pline as may hereafter. be adopted there-
by, be and they are hereby created a
body politic and corporate by the name of
the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends
(Orthodox), and by that name shall have
perpetual succession, and be able and
capable to sue and be sued at law and
in equity, to have a common seal,
and the same to change, altar
and renew at pleasure, and to do
all acts necessary and lawful for carry-
ing into effect the objects and purposes
of the aforesaid Society, and they are
hereby authorized and empowered to re-
ceive and hold by gift, grant, devise,
purchase, or otherwise, real and person-
al estate and other effects and property,
and the same to grant, mortgage, de-
mise or otherwise dispose of, the whole
or any part or parts thereof; provided,
the clear yearly incme from the prop-
erty of said Corporation shall not ex-
ceed the sum of twenty-five thousand
dollars,
Section 2. And be it enacted, That the
objects of the Corporation hereby creat-
ed are for the adoption and carrying
out the rules and discipline of the re-
ligious Society of Friends, who now
hold their Yearly Meeting on Eutaw
Street, in the City of Baltimore, and for
the carrying out such religious, edueca-
tional and charitable work as that in
which the said Society of Friends has
been or may hereafter be engaged.
Section 3. And be it enacted, That the
rules and discipline of the said Society
of Friends, as laid down in its last Book
of Discipline, * adopted * by said Yearly
Meeting in the year eighteen hundred
and seventy-six, shall be the rules and
discipline of the Corporation hereby
created, and the same may be altered
and changed in such manner as has been
or may hereafter be adopted by said
Yearly Meeting.
Section 3. And be it enacted. That
this Aet shall take effect from the date
of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1886.
Secona.—That for a great number of
years and in the year 1834 and subsequent
thereto the legal title to the Meeting
House property whereon was and is erect-
a Meeting House constituting the
church formerly of the said Centre Month-
ly Meeting of Friends, in the Borough of
Bellefonte, in the County of Centre, and
the Lturial
ground of said Centre Monthly Meeting of
Friends, situate in the same place, was
held under a deed dated the twenty-seec-
ond day of the tenth month (commonly
known as the month of October) in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and thirty four, recorded in the office
for the recording of deeds, &c. in and for
the said County of Centre on the twenty-
fourth day of October, A. D. 1839 in Deed
Book M. page, 432, et seq., being a deed
from George Valentine and Mary, his wife,
Reuben B. Valentine and Sarah, his wife,
Abraham 8. Valentine and Clarissa, his
wife, Bond Valentine and Izgia, his wife,
and William A. Thomas and Eliza, his
wife, of the first part, and Isaac Miller,
of the second part, conveying to the said
Isaac Miller, the party of the second part,
and to his heirs, according to the course
of the common law of England and his as-
signs in trust nevertheless. as thereinafter
in said deed set forth, the said premises
therein described as follows, to wit:
“ALL that certain lot or piece of land
situate in Bellefonte, bounded on the
East by lot of Hugh McGonigle, on the
West by James D. Harris Mill traet
with a Friends Meeting house thereon
erected : Lesining at a post on the line
of said Mill tract thence North seventy
five degrees East eighty eight and a haif
feet to a post, thence South twenty-five
degrees East eighty eight feet to Mc-
Gonigle’s lot to a post; thence South
forty degrees West sixteen feet by the
road leading from Bellefonte to Harris
Mill sixteen feet to a post, thence North
twenty five degrees West twenty feet to
a post thence south sixty degrees west
seyenty-two feet to a postin the line of
said Mill tract, thence North twenty-five
West one hundred & two feet to the place
of beginning; also a certain lot or piece of
land situate on the Northern Border of
the Forge tract adjoining a lot of Doc.
Daniel Dobbins on the North and in-
closed by a stone wall occupied and de-
signed as a place of Burial.” “In trust
nevertheless to and for the use, benefit
and advantage of the religious society of
the people called Quakers belonging to
Centre Monthly Meeting, held at Belle-
fonte in Perpetual succession forever.”
Third.—That subsequent to the death of
the said Isaac Miller, on petition to your
Honorable Court of Eliza M. Thomas and
others, all the then members of the Cen-
tre Monthly Meeting of Friends, to No.
33 August Term, 1901, under the following
caption, viz. “In the matter of the Peti-
tion of the Members of Centre Monthly
Meeting of Friends, for the appointment
of new trustees of the Meeting House
property and Burial Ground, in the place
and stead of Isaac Miller, deceased;” by
decree of your Honorable Court dated and
filed in said proceeding May 1, 1901, your
Honorable Court entered the following de-
cree:
“And now May 1, 1901, the foregoing
petition read and considered, whereupon
the Court does hereby grant the Lraver
thereof and does hereby appoint corge
Valentine, Jr., Edmund Blanchard and
Joseph D. Mitchell, Trustees of the Cen-
tre Monthly Meeting of Friends and of
the Meeting House Property and Burial
Ground and all the premises mentioned
and described in the aforementioned
deed conveying the same to Issac Miller,
Trustee, dated October 22nd, A. D. 1834,
and recorded in the office for the record-
in of deeds, &c. in and for Centre County,
Pennsylvania, in Deed Book “M,” page
432 &c., the said Trustees being hereby
appointed in the place and stead of the
said Isaac Miller, deceased, with all the
powers and title, duties and obligations
originaly vested in and imposed upon
the said Isaac Miller by virtue of the
said deed, and this appointment being
made without requiring any bond from
said Trustees.
By the Court.”
Fourth.— That by their deed dated
September 4, 1898, and recorded in the of-
fice for the recording of deeds, &c. in and
for the sald County of Centre on February
8 1809 in Deed Book 75, page 605 &c.,
George Valentine and Emily J., his wife,
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Abram 8.-Valentine and Lillie U., his wife,”
Mary. V.- Hale,>Robert-Valentine and Mary
N., his wife, Mary B. J. Valentine, Anna
J. Valentine, Caroline M. Valentine, De-
borah D. Valentine, George Valentine, Jr.,
Jacob D. Valentine, Jr., Louise M. Valen-
tine, Ellen D. Valentine, Robert Valentin
Jr. and John P. Harris, Trustee, convey
to Ife Valentine, Jr. and Edmund
Blanchard, Jr., and to their successors
and assigns, the said premises therein de- !
scribed as follows:
ALL that certain tract of ground sit-
uate in the Township of Spring, in the
County of Centre and State of Pennsyl-
vania aforesaid, bounded and described
as follows, to wit: Beginning at a post
north of an oak pointer, on the south-
ern line of the said Borough of Belle-
fonte at the northwestern corner of the
farm tract, other land of the said par-
ties ‘of the first part, thence along said
Borough line south’ seventy seven and
one-fourth degrees west twenty two and
four-tenths perches to stones, thence by
land now or formerly of the Valentine
Iron Company south twelve and three-
fourths degrees east thirteen perches to
stones, north of dead pine pointer,
thence by same lands north eighty three
and one-fourth degrees east sixteen and
five tenths perches to post, the north-
western corner of what is known as the
Workmens Cemetery, thence by same
north seventy seven degrees east six and
two-tenths perches to the western line
of said farm tract, and thence by said
line north eleven and one-fourth degrees
west fourteen and six-tenths perches to
the beginning; containing one acre and
one hundred and forty perches more or
less, and also containing a graveyard
on about forty five perches of ground
surrounded by a stone wall;” “in trust
nevertheless to and for the use and bene-
fit and advantage of the religious society
of the people called ‘Quakers’ belonging
to the Centre Monthly Meeting held at
Bellefonte, in perpetual succession for-
ever, to be used as a place of burial un-
der the direction and control of the said
Centre Monthly Meeting.”
Fifth.— That in and by the last will and
testament of Mary V. Hale, late of the
Borough of Bellefonte, in the County of
Centre and State of Pennsylvania, deceas-
ed, dated November 12, 1900, and probated
before the Register ‘of Wills for Centre
County, Pennsylvania, at Bellefonte, Pa. : 8
and remaining. on file .in the office of the
said Register and thérein recorded in Will
Book ‘KE, page 541; .&c. the said testatrix
made a bequest as follows, to wit:
0
a
a
a
a
a
a
0;
or Trustees of Centre Monthly Meeting of !
Friends, Bellefonte, Penna., or to the per-
son, persons or body corporate, holding
the legal title to the Meeting House and
grave-yard properties of said Monthly |
Meeting, at the time of my decease, or in
whom the legal title to said properties
may then or shall thereafter be vested,
his, her, or their successors, the sum of
One thousand dollars ($1,000) to be paid
by my executors, hereinafter named,
within three years after my decease, in-
terest on said sum of one thousand dol-
lars, to be likewise paid by my said exec-
utors from the date of my death until
the aforesaid payment of the said prin-
cipal sum, at the rate of five per cent.
per annum thereon, payable yearly, the
first payment of said interest to fall due
one year from and after my decease; in
trust nevertheless to invest the said sum
of one thousand dollars on good and
sufficient security to keep the same thus
invested from time to time to collect the
income and profits arising therefrom
and to appropriate said income and prof-
its from time to time together with the
interest to be received from my said ex-
ecutors prior to the payment of the said
principal sum as aforesaid, in manner
following, to wit: First, to the preser-
vation in good order and condition at all
times of the graves of my grandmother,
Ann Bond Valentine, my father, mother
and brothers, in the graveyard of the
said Centre Monthly Meeting; and see-
ond, to use whatever remains of said in-
come
for the proper care of these graves, for
the care and maintenance of the Meet-
ing House property of the ssid Centre ;
Monthly Meeting in such manner as the
said Centre Monthly Meeting shall di-
rect; it being, however, a condition of
this trust that these graves shall at all.
come and pro from this fun
superior and primary charge thercon,
and that enly so much of said income
and profits shall be appropriated each
year to the aforesaid uses of the Meet-
ing as remain after paying the expen-
ses and charges for such care of the said
graves; the said beauest to terminate |
and the entire fund to revert to my es-
tate in case of a failure at any time to |
comply faithfully with the terms of this
condition.”
Sixth.—That on or
as a
a
about April 4, 1902,
Trustee of said individual church, board
tre Monthly Mee
th
held in trust for some speci
to be used for the advancement
genera) work
funds held by such qd
shall be admh igtontinued
“inspect
necessary, titles to Pe
belonging to any
been connected,
Monthly
fully prays as fol
Edmund Blanchard or Edmund Blanch
termination of the trust under the wil
doing so
| that said
| thereunder,
from the said trust fi
“I give and bequeath unto the Trustee tioned Caen
b
maining
set forth
tion numbered Eleventh
b
th
board or
Centre
(Pamphlet Laws,
cordance with an
in such case made and provided
AND your petitioner Sh pray, &e.
i fore me,
tin and fo
and profits each year after paying | ¢
+ Julia B. Robinso
I'Notary's
) “appointed by - ‘your
onorable Court in the place and stead of
said above mentioned Truste
bered Fourth; and that thereupon your
mer Shall be aos inted op:d
as
T ‘agency, that is to say, of the said Cen-
of Friends and of
11 the said remaining trusts relative
ereto.
Twelfth.—That under the constitution
nd discipline governing the said Balti-
mere Yearly Meeting of Friends (Ortho-
dox), among other
that “when a meeting is discontinued the
Property belo!
things it is provided
ng to said Meeting shall
e Yearly Meeting, © to be
fic purpose, or
of the Yearly M Ho the
ee
body may determine :” and that
vested in t
at "u}
nistered in accordance wi
among oth-
i
other
Meeting.” estates
Thirteenth.—That
corporation js
ustee as aforesaid
Fourteenth.—That, as
nd by reason beteln sot forth
thereof, the said Ce
Meeting of Friends has ning
and its broperty is liable to be
wasted or destroyed
WHEREFORE, Four petitioner respect-
ow :
A. That the said George Valentine,
:
d
1d Joseph D. Mitchell, as T a
foresaid, be authorized to Fling ® oe
V. Hale, deceased, and be the o
uthorized to complete the reversion. non
trust fund, or
be ratified
f this petition numbered Tenth
B. That upon their release and discharge
above men-
the said three trustees shall ro
e released and discharged from all re-
trusts under their trusteeship, as
That thereupon your
C.
€ appointed
of the church
agency, that is to say, of the said
Monthly Meeting of Friends vhs
the then remaining trusts relative
and barticularly of the trusts rel-
the Meeting House property ang
in the para-
petition numbered Second,
Burial?
. 1921
Page 861, &ec.) and in ac-
y other Act of Assembly
BALTIMORE YEARLY MEETI
FRIENDS {ORTHODOX) TING oF
y omas W. Y. Clark
Clerk of the Permanent A oerd
State of Maryland, City of Baltimore, SS:
On the 11th day of May A. D 1927, be-
the subse iber, a Notar Pi ic
r the said State, ; ALL
fidavit for and on behalf of the said peti-
Loner, that he is well acquainted with the
times thus be yared for out of the in- Lay io
s
forth in the said
etiti
faets therein: ition, ang
set. .forth -are ‘true,
to the best of his knowledge, information
nd belief.
Affirmed and subscribed to before me ihe
day and year above written.
THOMAS W. Y. CLARK.
n
Notary Public.
My Commission expires May 6, 1929.
Seal]
DECREE.
And now May 13th 1927,
the foregoing
the above named George Valentine. Jr. | petition presented and directed to be tiled
Edmund Blanchard and Joseph D. Mitch. | «nd the Court hereby grants a rule upon
ell, Trustees of the Centre Monthly Meet- | all parties interested to show cause why
ing of Friends, received payment of the
above mentioned legacy from Ellen Hale
Andrews and George Murray Andrews,
Executors of the last will and testament
of the said Mary V. Hale, deceased, since
which time the
fund viz. $1000, had been invested by
said Trustees and the income derivable
therefrom collected and disposed of by
said Trustees.
Seventh.—That in later years, because of
deaths, changes of residence and for other
reasons, the membership of the said
Monthly meeting became very small and
attendance of meetings for worship in said
meeting house and of business meetings
of the said Monthly Meeting became small-
er and smaller, until such meetings for
worship entirely ceased, and it became
impracticable for said Monthly meeting to
funetion as the local organization of the
said religious denomination ; whereupon
by appropriate action by the said
Yearly Meeting, the chief governing
body, in accordance with the views
‘of the remaining members of said Month-
ly Meeting, and in accordance with the
rules and discipline of the said Yearly
Meeting, the said Centre Monthly Meeting
was formally “laid down” or discontinued
and thereby ceased to exist, on or about
May 5th 1919. :
Eighth.—That for many years last past
the said Joseph D. Mitchell, one of the
Trustees above named has permanently
resided in Lewistown, Mifflin County,
Pennsylvania and, as your petitioner is in-
formed, has affiliated with the Protestant
Episcopal Church of America; and that
for a number of years past the said Ed-
mund Blanchard or Edmund Blanchard,
Jr., another of said Trustees, has been liv-
ing in the State of Texas, so that the said
George Valentine, Jr., is the only one of
said Trustees now residing in Bellefonte,
Centre County, Pennsylvania, and the
d
n
u
€
the prayers
should not be granted, which i
returnable on Tuesday Ye Ta ade
July A. D.
Bellefonte,
principal amount of said | A.
copy of the foregoing petition
that
said
tioner for four
said County of Centre,
porous of Bellefonte,
at said time and place
the said matter will be
Court to enable it to make such order in
the case as shall
serve the property of the
Monthly Meeting of Friends in the inter-
ests of the denomination,
tition, decree and rule,
the foregoing petition
twelfth day of
1927, at the Court Bors in
Pennsylvania, at ten o'clock
M., and it is hereby directed that a
and of this:
said rule so
a copy of
: said peti-
successive weeks in one
ewspaper of “general circulation of the
published in the
Pennsylvania, and
day of said rule
a full hearing of
had by the said
ecree (which decree contains
4 copy thereof includes
rule), be published by the
at on the said return
be most likely to pre-
said Centre
according to the
ses to which it was intended to be de-
voted, and to determine all other matters
involved in the prayers
tion, at which time and
interested may be heard.
of the said peti-
place all persons
By the Court
JAMES g Funse
oT,
Notice of the feregoing copy of pe-
is hereby giv-
n to all persons interested who are
hereby notified that they may appear
and be heard by
the court at the time
nd place named in the above men-
tioned decree.
BLANCHARD & BLANCHARD,
Attorneys for Petitioner.
72-21-4t
only active Trustee.
Ninth.—That the said individual church,
board or agency of the said religious or-
ganization known as the Baltimore Yearly
Meeting of Friends (Orthodox), that is to
say, the said Centre Monthly Meeting of
Friends, has thus become extinct.
Temth.—That for the reasons above set
forth, it has become impracticable for the
said Trustees to fulfill or comply with
the conditions of the bequest under the
said will of Mary V. Hale, deceased, as
set forth in the paragraph hereof number-
ed, Fifth, and that, therefore, it is the de-
sire of the remaining former members of
the said Centre Monthly Meeting of
Friends and of your petitioner and of the
said Trustees that the said Trustees be
authorized to declare the termination of
said trust and the reversion of the said
principal fund constituting the corpus of
said trust, to the estate of the said Mary
V. Hale, deceased, in accordance with the
terms of her will, and be authorized to
pay over or transfer to the executors of
the said Mary V. Hale, deceased, the said
principal fund, in termination of said
b
[)
looking seedlings
cent. of them grow, they will, in due
time, add thousands
forests of Pennsylvania.
Ee —
Many Seedlings Shipped from Rock.
view Nursery.
Thousands of seedling trees, mostly
pine, have been shipped from the nur-
sery at the Rockview
reforestration
the State this
which are from fifteen to eighteen
inches in height, are packed in strong
penitentiary, for
purposes throughout
spring. The seedlings
oxes, seven to eight thousand in a
X, to assure their delivery in good
rder. They are healthy, thrifty
and if fifty per
of dollars to the
The penitentiary officials have ar-
ranged for planting fifty thousand
trust and satisfaction thereof, or that their
acts in doing so be ratified and confirmed,
and that thereupon the said Trustees shall
be released and discharged from all ob-
Hgations arising relative to said trust
und.
Eleventh.—That for the reasons above
set forth, it is also the desire of the said
remaining former members of the said Cen-
tre Monthly Meeting of Friends and of
your petitioner and of the said Trustees,
that upon their release and discharge from
the ah trust fund referred to in the par-
agraph hereof numbered Fifth, the said
Trustees shall also be released and dis-
charged from all remaning trusts under
their trusteeship, and particularly from
the trusts relative to the Meeting House
seedlings on Nittany mountain, on
what was once cultivated farm land
but which has been lying idle since
its purchase by the State. The plant-
ing of trees will not only increase the
value of the forest land belonging to
the penitentiary but will improve the
water shed which is the source of the
institution’s water supply.
Most of the seedlings in the peni-
tentiary nursery are pine, although
those in charge of the work planted
several dump-cart loads of walnuts
last fall, and this spring and summer
Jroperty and Burial Ground, referred to
n the paragraph hereof numbered
ond, and the additional Burial Ground
referred to in the pargraph hereof num-
are experimenting, to see whether
they can be transplanted, and how
they grow.- ‘